Phillip murder trial date continued
kel, a city of Kent employee
and Auburn resident, could
last six weeks.
The trial was scheduled to
start Wednesday, June 20.
But with so many pre-trial

BY STEVE HUNTER
shunter@kentreporter.com

The murder trial for the
Oregon man charged with
first-degree murder for the
stabbing death of Seth Fran-

motions by defense attorneys for additional discovery
requests for materials held by
the state, additional witness
interviews and scheduling
conflicts, King County Supe-

rior Court Judge Beth Andrus
agreed last month with
attorneys from both sides
to continue the trial date for
William L. Phillip to Oct. 28.
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City road
repair project
delayed for now

The Kent School District plans to remove sandbags
by this fall from around Mill Creek Middle School on
Central Avenue North now that the Green River flood
threat has lessened. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter

Boeing, Kent
schools await
sandbag removal

BY SARAH KEHOE
skehoe@kentreporter.com

The city of Kent is seeking
additional funding opportunities
for a $7 million project aimed
to widen and improve a major
street.
The project will upgrade an
old, substandard section of
Southeast 256th Street from the
Y intersection at Kent-Kangley
Road to 116th Avenue Southeast. This roadway connects two
previously upgraded sections of
Southeast 256th Street.
Public Works received a letter from the Washington State
Transportation Improvement
Board (TIB) regarding the Southeast 256th Street Project, stating
that the proposed 256th Street
Improvements is now considered
Stage 2, a delayed project.
Of the estimated $7 million
project cost, the city has more
than $3 million committed; $2
million TIB and $1 million drainage utility funds, leaving about a
$4 million funding gap.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
shunter@kentreporter.com

Culture in motion
The Kung Fu Lion Dance Team maneuver its Chinese dragon on center stage at the fourth annual Kent
International Festival last Saturday. The festival, “Learn from Each Other,’” celebrated the cultural diversity
within Kent. Story, page 2. RACHEL CIAMPI, Reporter

Sandbags soon
will be coming down
at businesses and
schools all across
Kent that sit near the
Green River.
Boeing installed
8-foot high, green
Hesco barriers
around its Kent
Space Center on
West Valley Highway three years ago
as extra protection
against flooding
because of damage
from a 2009 storm
to an abutment
next to the Howard
Hanson Dam.

The Kent School
District put down
giant sandbags covered in black plastic
around two elementary schools and a
middle school.
But since the
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers completed repairs at the
dam last fall, Kent
schools, Boeing and
other businesses that
installed sandbags
plan to remove the
bags by fall.
“Based on the
recent reports from
the U.S. Army Corp
of Engineers we
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Constantine: Things looking up in a down economy
BY ROBERT WHALE
rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Constantine

Getting people up and working
again in a down economy remains
King County's top priority.
Such was King County Executive

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Auburn-Area Chamber of Commerce
Luncheon on Monday at Emerald
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Quoting numbers compiled by the
National Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Constantine said that the three-county
metropolitan area in 2011 showed the

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Show of color: Kent festival shines
BY ROCHELLE ADAMS
For the Kent Reporter

Taiko drummers, bagpipes, children garbed in
lion headdresses and various cultural displays took
center stage last Saturday
at the fourth annual Kent
International Festival.
“The theme of the festival
is ‘Learn from Each Other,’”
said Nancy Skipton, entertainment coordinator for
the festival. “So people from

different cultures can learn
about other cultures. I think
once people know about
another culture, they have
a better appreciation for the
differences between people.”
There are more than
140 different languages in
Kent, she said. The festival celebrates the cultural
diversity within Kent.
About 15 different
cultural booths were set up
as vendors, Skipton said.

There entertainment acts
representing about 20 different cultures.
“This is the fourth year
we’ve done the festival,” she
said. “It’s grown every year
since. The first year was very,
very successful, amazingly
enough for a first year. It’s
grown since then. The first
year we had 12 acts for entertainment, now we’re working
about 25 different acts.”
The entertainment

ranged from Bollywood
dancers to taiko drummers
to Scottish bagpipes.
Christran Skoorsmith, a
member of the Elliott Bay
Pipe Band, participated in
the festival for the second
year in a row, playing the
bagpipes.
The event is more successful every year, he said.
He thinks attendees get a
lot out of both the stage
performances and the food
court, which allows them
to taste foods they wouldn’t
necessarily be exposed to
otherwise.
Yong Tong Huang plays the guzheng at the Kent International Festival.
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“I love playing the
bagpipe, and I love sharing
that part of my culture,”
Skoorsmith said. The Kent
International Festival is a
fantastic opportunity to
have everyone to bring out
their best and share their
differences.”
He performed a series
of marches and slow airs.
He also allowed audience
members to try using the
bagpipes as well, so they
could see how difficult using the instrument is.
“The audience responded
both to the playing and to
opportunity to explore and
get to know the bagpipes,”
Skoorsmith said. “The bagpipe is very distinct, people
recognize it, but hardly anyone gets to encounter it up

close, to learn how it works.
So that’s one thing I like to
offer people spontaneously.”
Aside from the entertainment, attendees also had
the opportunity to try a
variety of different foods.
Last year, they added a
food court to the event,
Skipton said. This year
they featured food from six
Kent restaurants including
Indian, Mexican, Mediterranean, Kenyan, Irish and
Japanese food.
Nancy Brown, who
served as the food court
team leader, said the event
is beneficial because it
allows attendees to try a
variety of foods.
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discovered the effectiveness of coconut oil in fighting neurodegeneration while researching a new drug. Dr. Newport’s husband, Steve,
began to develop signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Newport searched
endlessly for ways to curb the progression of the disease.
She discovered that the active ingredients in Ketasyn were medium
chain triglycerides (MCTs)–which are derived from coconut oil. After
putting her husband on coconut oil he began to get better. The progression of the Alzheimer’s stopped and his condition improved.
How do the medium chain triglycerides in coconut oil fight
Alzheimer’s disease? During digestion, MCTs are broken down into
medium chain fatty acids, some of which are converted into ketones.
Nerve tissue, including the brain, relies on glucose for energy, nerve
cells can also convert ketones into energy. When food is restricted and
adequate glucose is unavailable, the body converts fat into ketones,
which supplies the brain with energy it needs to function properly.
Ketones do not require the aid of insulin to pass through cell
membranes. Therefore, they can supply brain cells with needed energy
regardless of insulin status. Nerve compromised brain cells that are starving for nourishment can get the energy they need from ketones the body
manufactures from coconut oil.
Newport laments that had she
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CONGRESSIONAL
9TH DISTRICT
CANDIDATE
PLANS TOWN HALL
Democrat Dave Christie, who
is running for Congress in the
9th Congressional District,
will host a town mall meeting
from 1-4 p.m. Saturday,
June 30 at the Kent Commons
Green River Room,
525 Fourth Ave. N.
The redrawn 9th District
includes portions of Kent and
Auburn as well as northeast
Tacoma, Federal Way,
southeast Seattle, Mercer
Island and Bellevue.
Adam Smith, D-Tacoma,
currently represents the 9th
District and is running for reelection. Other challengers to
Smith on the Aug. 7 primary
ballot include Democrat
Tom Cramer and Republicans
Jim Postma and John Orlinski.

The city of Kent plans to send letters to medical marijuana collective
gardens operating in town that the
businesses are no longer allowed
under a new ordinance.
The City Council voted 4-3 on
June 5 to ban medical marijuana
collective gardens because it believes the businesses violate federal
law that lists marijuana as an illegal
drug under the federal Controlled
Substances Act. That ordinance

took effect June 13.
“We will be sending out letters
to operators and owners informing
them that collective gardens are
no longer an allowed zoning use
in Kent,” said City Attorney Tom
Brubaker in an email. “We intend
to send letters to each operator and
to their landlords, to the extent we
can identify them.”
Brubaker said Tuesday the letters
had yet to be drafted and he was unsure when the letters would be sent.
Evergreen Association of Collec-

tive Gardens is the one known business still to be operating. Owner
Charles Lambert has promised
to fight the city all the way to the
Washington Supreme Court.
Brubaker said if the letters do not
cause the medical marijuana businesses to close, the city will figure
out what to do next.
“We will continue to assess the
situation and consult with the
Mayor (Suzette Cooke) and Council before we take additional steps,”
he said.

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of Fire Engine 71 alongside his ashes as firefighters stand at attention at a service for Rideout on June 14
at River of Life Church in Kent. Rideout, who was retired, died from cancer June 6. He was 57.
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the 13100 block of Southeast 232nd
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Kyle Ohashi, Kent Fire Department
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insurance company will further investigate and may find a cause.
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A Kent man was one
of two Veterans Affairs employees arrested
Tuesday at work following
an investigation of more
than $110,000 in fraudulent claims in a program
designed to reimburse
veterans for their travel to
medical appointments.
The two employees allegedly recruited veterans to
submit phony vouchers for
travel expenses they had
not incurred, according
to a U.S. Attorney’s Office
media release. The employees reportedly processed
the vouchers and then
demanded kick-backs from
the veterans of the funds
they illegally obtained.
“We owe it to our
veterans to protect the
money set aside for their
medical care,” said U.S.
Attorney Jenny Durkan.
“Every dollar of fraud
takes benefits from the

many veterans who are
returning home and need
the support services the
VA provides.”
According to the complaint filed in the case, Nick
B. Hall, 46, of Seattle, and
Keishjuan Daniels, 32, of
Kent, each worked as travel
clerks for the Veterans
Health Administration
(VHA) to process veterans’
travel benefit claims. The
men were employed at the
VA Medical Center on Beacon Hill in Seattle.
Between January 2011
and May 2012, Hall and
Daniels conspired with five
veterans to submit false
travel vouchers for trips
from addresses in Eastern
Washington and Oregon
so that the VA would pay
out more than $110,000
in travel claims. In some
instances the claims for reimbursement were on dates
when no appointments
ever occurred.
The veterans who
received the fraudulent
payments are charged in
the conspiracy and will
appear in U.S. District
Court later this month.
Hall and Daniels were
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Kent officials to send letters to medical
marijuana businesses that they are illegal

The additional steps could be
civil action or criminal charges,
said Deputy City Attorney Pat
Fitzpatrick.
Steve Sarich, executive director
of the Cannabis Action Coalition,
has sued the city in an effort to
prohibit the city from enforcing its
ban on collective gardens because
he claims the state regulates medical marijuana collectives, and cities
cannot enforce federal law over
state medical marijuana laws.
“We have been sued and will
defend that lawsuit,” Brubaker said.
State law allows medical marijuana
use but the majority of council members decided the state law remains
unclear about distribution of the drug
and doesn’t want any medical marijuana businesses operating in Kent.

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“It was continued with
a specific case schedule
for the attorneys on both
sides to follow,” said Ian
Goodhew, spokesman
for the King County
Prosecuting Attorney’s
Office. “The continuance
was at the request of both
parties.”
Phillip, 31, of Portland, remains in custody
at the county jail at the
Norm Maleng Regional
Justice Center in Kent
with bail set at $1 million.

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He pleaded not guilty in
March 2011 to a first-degree murder charge after
being extradited from
Portland.
Frankel, 41, a city
video-program coordinator, was killed May 21,
2010 in his Auburn home.
He was discovered the following day by a neighbor
who was checking on his
welfare, looked through
a window, and saw the
body.
Prosecutors allege that
Phillip, a former boyfriend
of the woman Frankel dat-

ed and lived with, drove
to Auburn to kill Frankel
because he was angry that
someone else was dating
the woman. Detectives
connected Phillip to the
murder through a bloodstained towel found at
Frankel’s house as well as
cellphone records that put
Phillip near the home the
night of Frankel’s death.
Frankel’s girlfriend
tipped off detectives
that Phillip could be the
one who killed Frankel.
She said Phillip wanted
a romantic relation-

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ship with her and spoke
badly about Frankel even
though he had never met
him, according to charging papers. Phillip had
seen a photo of Frankel
that the girlfriend had.
Auburn police – with
the help of the U.S. Marshals Service – arrested
Phillip in December 2010
in Portland in connection
with Frankel’s death.
At a court hearing
in May, Judge Andrus
ordered a specific court
schedule for deputy prosecuting attorney Wyman
Yip and defense attorney Kristen Murray.
According to court
documents, the jury
trial could last six
weeks; Phillip has
waived his right to
a speedy trial; both
sides have until Sept.
28 to complete all
fact witness interviews; and the state
shall disclose the
identity of any witnesses it tends to call
by Oct. 5.
If needed, either
side could also ask the
court for more time to
prepare the case and
request a new trial
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feel confident that the threat
once posed by the breach
in the dam’s abutment has
been resolved,” said Boeing
spokeswoman Cindy Wall in
an email.
Wall said the details are
still being worked out as
far as what Boeing will do
with the Hesco barriers.
She said the barriers will
come down by early fall.
She declined to disclose the
cost of installing or removing the barriers.
The Kent Space Center
houses a central regional
communication center as
well as one of Boeing’s key
data centers. It is also home to
numerous Boeing supported
defense programs critical to
national security.
Kent School District officials received three bids
from contractors to remove
sandbags from around
Neely-O’Brien Elementary,
Kent Elementary and Mill
Creek Middle School.
School officials are in the
process of awarding the bid,
which is expected to cost
about $100,000.
“Not knowing the
eventual duration or cost
of this project, we set aside
adequate funds to cover the
removal in 2009 and any
unused dollars will go back
into the general fund,” said
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While students finished
the school year Wednesday,
the sandbags are expected to
be gone by next school year.
“The schools will be glad
the barriers are gone,” Loftis
said. “While necessary and
appreciated, they were a
visual distraction and a student management challenge.
Our schools are designed
with specific lines of site so
that campus traffic can be
monitored. There are also
the aesthetic qualities and
a more open look and feel
lends itself to a more pleasant school experience.”
Loftis said crews will
remove sandbags from
the schools sometime this
summer. He did not have
specific dates.
“Student safety is our
number one responsibility
and these barriers were in
place to protect students’
lives and community property,” Loftis said. “They were
a necessary precaution given
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appreciate the work that was
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Constantine went on to
cite a recent study of 366
metropolitan areas throughout the nation that gave the
Seattle metropolitan area a
third-place ranking as the
strongest local economy
based on sustained growth
over the past 20 years.
The Puget Sound region,
Constantine said, has led
the revival, especially in the
manufacturing sector.
Indeed, he said, over the
past year this region has led
the nation in manufacturing job creation, showing
an increase of 7.3 percent,
or 12,600 jobs.
Accounting for â&#x20AC;&#x153;fully half
of that growth,â&#x20AC;? Constantine said, and led by the
Boeing company, was the
manufacturing sector.
Constantine praised the
work of the King County
Aerospace Alliance, a
broad-based partnership of
local jurisdictions, chambers of commerce, the Port
of Seattle, local economic
development groups and
educational institutions
like school districts and
universities for working
to expand and prosper the
aerospace industry in the
Puget Sound Region.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here in King County â&#x20AC;Ś
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to maintain the kind of access to a
middle-class future that has
been really the foundation

Constantine said.
Constantine said that one
of his goals is to make access
to higher education a priority, so that when the Boeing
Company or Microsoft look
for people to fill high-paying
jobs, recruiters wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to
go halfway around the world
to find qualified people.
The state of Washington, Constantine said, is
creating 850 new slots for
engineering students at the
University of Washington
and Washington State University. The King County
Workforce Development
Council has awarded
$900,000 to community
and technical colleges to
provide certificated training
for specific skills needed by
the Boeing Company and
aerospace suppliers.
Constantine noted that he
and King County Councilmember Bob Ferguson
have recently proposed to
put about $2 million from
the Veterans and Community Services levy into a new
aerospace and veteran employment training initiative.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a two-year program
from Workforce Renton
that helps veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan transfer the skills they
have learned in the military
into good paying jobs in
the aerospace industry,â&#x20AC;?
Constantine said.
A woman from the audi-

ence asked Constantine to
assess the impact on the
Port of Seattle of bringing
an 18,000-seat capacity
basketball stadium into
Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sodo area, where
baseball and football stadiums already exist.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The transportation impacts would be mostly after
the time the Port of Seattle is
closed at 4:30 p.m.,â&#x20AC;? Constantine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most of the games
there would in the evening.
There are challenges today,
and they have not been properly addressed. One is freight
getting to and from the Port.
The second is the more diffuse problem of warehousing
and manufacturing businesses trying to move their goods
around, and then commuters
coming through. â&#x20AC;Ś
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The new arena would
marginally worsen those
problems, but would not
be the difference between
night and day. What we
need to do is to address the
challenges we have now,
and by so doing we would
address issues attached to
having a new basketball
arena,â&#x20AC;? Constantine said.
Constantine noted
that with the economic
collapse, the recent spate
of annexations and the
passage of initiatives there
is virtually no money to
spare for road maintenance
or construction.

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that has been really the foundation of the American dream.” – King County Executive Dow Constantine

Liquor doesn’t
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I didn’t like the idea of privatizing liquor
sales for all sorts of reasons. After recently
visiting eight retail outlets, my opposition
may have softened but not much.
It’s going to take some time to get used to
seeing gin and whiskey and vodka across the
aisle from the chips or near the tiki torches.
Really, the displays aren’t all that big, maybe an aisle front and back or just something
up against a wall. The ones I saw on that first
day of private sales in nearly 80 years had
some gaping holes in the displays or just
minimal inventory. That
will change, but still you
have to ask, why bother?
The answer, of course,
is the bottom line and
one more lucrative addition to the product line.
I took my liquor tour
as a reporter, but also
as a curiosity seeker, much like others who
stopped into the stores just to gaze on the
spirits and check out the prices.
It seemed particularly busy at a Fred
Meyer. I was watching the shoppers as much
as seeing what was for sale. A young man
and an older one shopping together caught
my attention. They also caught the attention
of store employees who obviously and not so
obviously were keeping an eye on shoppers,
too.
I liked that enhanced security. Here’s another piece of that.
Anyone would quickly figure out that
shoplifting a fifth of whiskey was fruitless if
you had to break the bottle to remove the cap
lock. That’s one reason my opposition softened. Other retailers need to pay attention to
Fred Meyer’s efforts to keep control of who
buys liquor at its stores.
And, no, I don’t own stock in Fred Meyer.
I stopped by a nearby Costco over the
weekend to do some shopping, but really to
see how the mega-wholesale store that paid
mega-bucks to pass Initiative 1183 was displaying the liquor. I will say that Costco

Thank you,
neighbors, police
I want to send out a big
thank you to those who contacted the police when they
saw some suspicious characters
lurking around our homes on a
recent Friday.
I returned from a short
trip to find four police cars
surrounding two guys in the
green belt area. As I drove by,
I was thinking to myself, “I’m
glad they got caught having
no thought or idea of what
they did.” After I passed them,
I began to wonder if they did
anything to my place?
My heart started to race a
little as I entered my house,
wondering what I might find.
As I looked around inside,
nothing appeared missing or
out of place. I thought there
was no need to look any
further.
I wasn’t home more than
about 10 minutes when I heard
a knock at the door. It was one

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of the officers and as I opened
the sliding door, I was able to
see it had some damage and
evidence that someone had
pried it open and broke in.
The officer asked me if I
noticed anything missing,
which I had not since I just
returned. He asked if I had any
coins or jewelry, and I told him

I did keep loose coins upstairs
in my bedroom. He asked me
to check to see if anything
was missing. As I was going
upstairs, I found it hard to believe my coins would be gone
since nothing else appeared
touched. To my surprise, they
were gone.
It wasn’t a whole lot of
money, but it certainly could
have been much worse. I just
want to thank my neighbors
for calling the police to report
some unfamiliar guys who
were knocking on doors asking
for some girl. It’s obvious now,
they were looking for someone
not at home.
I also want to thank the Kent
Police Department for its quick
action that thwarted this effort
and hopefully, may deter others from trying to steal from
our neighborhood.
I appreciate the willingness
to watch out and act to protect
our community.
– John Machowski
[ more LETTERS page 7 ]

Two-thirds for tax increases needed now more than ever
For 20 years, the voters have approved initiatives making it tougher
to raise taxes.
Whether you are a
Republican, Democrat
or independent voter,
most everyone agrees
it’s better to incentivize
politicians to prioritize spending
and reform government rather than
increase taxes.

Olympia has proven
time and again that if it’s
easy to raise taxes, they
will. And they’ve consistently illustrated that
without these tougher-toraise-taxes policies, they’ll
impose higher taxes on
regular taxpayers who are
ill-equipped to fight back.
Olympia politicians may talk
a lot about “closing corporate

loopholes” and “forcing the rich to
pay their fair share” but whenever
taxes are increased, powerful lobbyists protect their clients and you
and I get stuck with higher sales
taxes, property taxes, candy taxes,
gas taxes, cigarette taxes and utility
taxes.
The two-thirds vote requirement
for the Legislature to raise taxes has
been approved by voters four times
(we’re working hard to give voters

a fifth opportunity with this year’s
Initiative 1185). During legislative
sessions it’s been in effect, it’s done
exactly what the voters wanted,
making tax increases a last resort
and forcing elected officials to work
together to prioritize spending and
reform government.
But during sessions that the
Legislature has suspended the
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two-thirds requirement, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
only been a debate about
which taxes to increase,
how to much to increase
them, and which poor and
working class taxpayers get
targeted. Twenty years of
experience has removed
all doubt that politicians
cannot be trusted to make
tax increases a last resort
without the two-thirds vote
requirement.
Democrat politicians and
their big-monied special
interest groups have consistently tried to convince
voters to reject this policy
at the ballot box. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
failed every time. But rather
than accept the clear and
consistent decision of the
people, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve embarked
on a repeated effort to sue
the voters.
On three separate occasions, the state supreme
court has exercised judicial
restraint and allowed both
sides to exercise their powers: the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power
to ignore the law and the
peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power to pass it.
It is a political tug-of-war
over an important public
policy and the courts have
recognized that both sides
are fully capable of defending their position without
judicial intervention.
Ever since the state
supreme court ruled that
the Legislature does not
have to abide by voterapproved initiatives (Farm
Bureau, 2006), Olympia has
been given free reign. As
the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brief
explains: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The two-thirds
supermajority vote provision may make it politically
difficult to raise taxes, but
freedom from political
difficulty is not a right or
legally protected interest of
Plaintiff legislators.â&#x20AC;?
A Seattle judge recently
ruled differently than the

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had the best selection,
but still far short of what
I would expect to see in
former state-run stores.
Anyone who has lived
where liquor is sold almost everywhere, in such
places as California and
Alaska, probably doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
see what the big deal is.
Only about a quarter of
the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population
lives in states where the
sale of alcohol is somehow

state supreme court has
previously. Fortunately,
the ruling will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;stayedâ&#x20AC;?
pending appeal, meaning the two-thirds will
remain in effect until the
High Court rules. There
are plenty of reasons to be
optimistic that the Supreme
Court will reject the Seattle
judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reasoning:
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found that individual
legislators and special
interest groups lack standing to bring lawsuits like
this (â&#x20AC;&#x153;When a statute may
be amended by the very
persons the petitioners
claim are being harmed,
state legislators, we cannot
do otherwise than find that
this is only a speculative
dispute.â&#x20AC;?).
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approved this year, arguably making their current
lawsuit moot.
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valid if the Legislature
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exhaust all their
remedies before going to
court. They could have
appealed the ruling of the
chair and passed the tax
increase; they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.
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just say that initiatives canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
set a higher tax vote threshold; the ruling said the
Legislature couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t impose
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may determine the rules of
its own proceedings.â&#x20AC;? This
broad ruling flies in the face
of the doctrine of separation of powers.
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unless the Constitution
expressly prohibits it. Our
Constitution does not.
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valid, the dispute must be
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genuine and opposing
interestsâ&#x20AC;? that are â&#x20AC;&#x153;direct
and substantial.â&#x20AC;? The Atcontrolled.
But this is a big deal.
Anyone who has been
touched by the dangers of
alcohol â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a drunken driver
who killed a loved one or
a family member wracked
by alcoholism â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hates to
see it proliferate. Anyone
who worries about minors
having more potential
access to liquor hates to
see this happen right at
graduation time.
Liquor is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;controlled
substanceâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a drug that

torney General has a job to
do, defend initiatives, but in
my view, their office lacks
the direct and substantial
interest needed to surpass
this threshold.
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unanimous court rejected a
very similar lawsuit under
very similar circumstances
(one chamber passed a tax
increase and a lawsuit was
filed challenging the twoUIJSET
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authored by Justice Mary
Fairhurst, the most liberal
justice on the state supreme
court, resulted in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;finding
this a political questionâ&#x20AC;?
that should be resolved
through the legislative
process.
Article I, section 1 of our
state Constitution reads: All
political power is inherent
in the people, and governments derive their just
powers from the consent of
the governed. Article I, section 2 reads: The first power
reserved by the people is
the initiative.
It is simply inconceivable that the founders of
our state and authors of
our Constitution â&#x20AC;&#x201C; people
who were deeply committed to limiting the power of
government â&#x20AC;&#x201C; intended to
prohibit the Legislature and
the people from making it
tougher to raise taxes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
silly to argue otherwise as
these Democrat politicians
and special interest groups
are attempting to do.
Our Constitution exists
to protect the people from
the government, not to protect the government from
the people.
Tim Eyman, co-sponsor
of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Son of 1053â&#x20AC;? Initiative 1185,
can be reached to 425-4939127, tim_eyman@comcast.
net or www.VotersWantMoreChoices.com.

can kill. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of our
everyday lives, right next to
the chips and tiki torches.
I am not for prohibition.
I just favored some control
over this drug.
Now it will become normal and accepted. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
deserve that, especially in
the eyes of our kids.

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Thanks to four votes
I am so grateful to the four members
of the Kent City Council â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bill Boyce,
Dana Ralph, Les Thomas and Deborah
Ranniger â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who voted to ban â&#x20AC;&#x153;medicalâ&#x20AC;?
marijuana collective gardens. These gardens are just a smoke screen for potheads.
It is nothing but a scam to get around
federal law.
It is too bad that we have the three
(members) on our Council (who opposed

the ban) and support making pot legal.
We need to vote these three out.
â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mathew Renner

Correction
Columba Tsang did not own Herbal
Choice Caregivers. An article in the
June 15 Kent Reporter had incorrect
information about her connection to the
business. She is the wife of Deryck Tsang,
who owned the medical marijuana collective gardens store.

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Mary Beth and Kelly
Bachand’s hobbies have
taken them to big cities and
put them on television.
Fashion took Mary Beth
to New York City where she
went to school at Parsons.
Her work appeared in a
fashion show that caught
the attention of Saks Fifth
Avenue and her work is
now on display in the New
York store.
“It was a grueling process
putting together all the
pieces for the show, but it
was also such a great time
in my life,” Mary Beth said.
“I was honored Saks took
an interest in me.”
Kelly’s passion is long
range shooting, which
involves engaging small
and/or distant targets at the
limit of weapon, ammunition and shooter capability under time pressure in
field settings. Kelly, 24, is a
member of the U.S. Long
Range Rifle Team and has
competed in events in
Canada, Los Angeles and
Australia where he won a
silver medal.
“Long range shooting
is really fun and challenging,” Kelly said. “It presents
some technical and mental
challenges that you have to
overcome.”
Mary Beth has been into
fashion her whole life. She
started making her own
clothes and altering the
ones she would buy at age
10.
“I find clothing to be a
beautiful form of art,” she
said. “Everything designers

Kent siblings Mary Beth and Kelly Bachand have used their talents
for fun experiences in life. SARAH KEHOE, Kent Reporter
create represents who we
culture shock because it is
are and is a big part of us.”
very different from Kent
Mary Beth decided to
and school was exhausting,
sharpen her design talents
you don’t sleep much,” she
by attending the Oxbow
said. “What I learned to
School in California,
love most about New York
which is a rigorous art high
were the different cultures
school.
represented in the city.”
“I learned so much there
It was meeting new kinds
and it really gave me the
of people that gave Mary
confidence to apply to ParBeth a new dream.
sons,” she said.
“I really want to find a
The designer hoped atway to help people and imtending fashion school in
prove their lives,” she said.
New York would propel her “I hope to one day bring my
to success.
love of clothes and this to“Moving to New York to
gether, maybe with my own
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philanthropic efforts.”
While at Parsons, Mary
Beth interned at Donna
Karen’s Urban Zen Collection. She also traveled to
Italy for a shoe competition
where she worked with a
technician to design six
pairs of shoes.
“All my experiences
showed me that I fit into
this world perfectly,” Mary
Beth said. “The work was
rigorous, but I managed to
stay on top of everything
and produce my own,
unique designs.”
Kelly has been involved
in rifle competitions since
high school.
“Long range shooting is
really a gentlemen’s sport,”
Kelly said. “In one competition I went you, they
had the shooters taking tea
breaks in-between their
turns.”
Kelly was the first American to win a Canadian Rifle
Competition in 2009. He
was invited to the Canadian
Parliament Building where
he met generals.
“Long range shooting is
a big deal over there, and it
was awesome to be a part of
all the excitement,” he said.
“They held a small parade
in my honor and I felt cool.”
Kelly has travelled and
competed on the U.S. Rifle
Team for many years and
is a coach for the under 25
group.
“Long range shooting has
really open some doors for
me and allowed me to experience a lot of neat things,”
he said.
A few years ago, Kelly appeared on Top Shot, a show
on the history channel that

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brought a group of long
range shooters together for
various challenges.
“It was kind of like
Survivor but with guns,”
Kelly said. “We had all these
competitions and we got to
vote each other off.”
Kelly took a semester
off of college to participate
in the show. He studied
electrical engineering at the
University of Washington.
“I remember I filmed an
audition tape in my kitchen
with a friend and just talked
about my adventures shooting over the years and why
I liked it,” he said. “Then
I went to Los Angeles to
film and they stuck us in
blacked out vans and drove
us to this rural part of
northeast L.A.”
Kelly was the youngest
person in the group.
“I don’t know if it was because of my age but I kept
getting voted for and ended
up getting fifth place out of
16 people,” he said. “It was a
really fun experience.”
Kelly hopes to continue
long range shooting adventures in the future.
“This is definitely something I am going to keep
doing throughout my life,”
he said.
Kelly graduated from
UW on June 10 and is set to
become an electrical engineer at Aerojet. Mary Beth
graduated from Parsons last
month and plans to return
to New York to become
a designer after taking a
break at home in Kent for a
few months.
She has an interview
set up at Calvin Klein and
Donna Karen.

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The Kent man rode 860
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a rookie bicycling team of
three other men on
June 13-15, and came in
second in their division in
the Race Across the West
(RAW).
RAW is a challenging
race from Oceanside, Calif.,
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takes riders through deserts
and mountains. Stoffel can
attest to that. He said the
hardest part of the race was
the heat, the climbs and the
sleep deprivation.
Stoffel, 53, did part of the
Oak Creek Canyon climb
toward Flagstaff, Ariz., on
June 14 when temperatures at night dropped to

the mid-40s. The climb is
described as the toughest
section west of the Mississippi River, averaging more
than 128 feet of climbing
per mile. The day before
and after that, Stoffel rode
in 100-degree-plus weather
in the deserts of California
and Utah.
“I promised myself that
I would finish, and any
time uncertainty or doubt
crossed my mind, I thought
about the people that matter to me and that kept me
going,” Stoffel said.
Team RVLution raised
awareness and money for
the MORE project, a charity that seeks to change lives
of families living in poverty
in Brazil, Cambodian, Thailand and Malaysia. Stoffel
dedicated the race to his
sponsored child in Brazil,
Felipe Souza, a 13-year-old
boy who loves to ride his

bicycle. Stoffel has a son of
the same age with similar
interests.
Stoffel’s fellow teammates
had the better part of a year
to train for RAW but Stoffel
had only three months. He
had been training for the
2012 Seattle-to-Portland
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had to kick up his regimen
significantly when Team
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for RAW. It’s a far cry from
Stoffel two years ago when
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Stoffel weighed almost
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that might keep a simple situation from becoming an awkward or expensive
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The Kent School Board
members are selecting
candidates for the open
board member position on
Tuesday.
The three final applicants
are Agda Burchard, Amber
Olson and Donald Priebe.
Applications for the school
board position have been
available since Bill Boyce
announced his resignation
May 23 at a school board
meeting.
Boyce served on the
board for 16 years.

“It has been my pleasure
to serve on the board since
August of 1996. However,
I feel it is necessary to pass
the baton so I can devote
my time to my newly elected position of Kent City
Councilman,” Boyce wrote
in his letter to the school
board and Superintendent
Edward Lee Vargas.
Boyce was elected to
the Kent City Council last
November.
“Bill has been a mentor for all of the board

Kent students accepted into
Washington Aerospace Scholars Program
Sean Hansberry from Kentridge High School and
Nicholas Tillotson from Kentwood will participate in
the Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) program in
June and July at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
The WAS is a competitive educational program for
high school juniors from across the state.
The scholars are among the 160 students who qualified for the residency program from 297 who applied in
November.

Elsewhere
Kentridge’s Natalie Kelly and Kentwood’s Carly Joy Vela were among 90
local and regional recipients of Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program
awards, the Comcast Foundation announced last week. Comcast asks
schools to name students who demonstrate leadership abilities in school

members,” said School
Board President Debbie
Straus. “His work on the
school board for the last 16
years will not be forgotten
because of the many district
programs that are in place
due to his leadership.”
Applications closed June
15. Steps for the board in
selecting a new member
include accepting the resignation by formal action
at the next regular meeting,
providing public notice of
the vacancy and procedure

for the position and reviewing application information
on June 25.
Interviews are then
conducted in public. At the
conclusion of the public interviews, the board will recess to an executive session
to review qualifications. The
board will reconvene to announce the selected board
member on June 26.
The selected candidate
will take the oath of office
and be seated at the June 27
board meeting.

activities and who reflect a strong commitment to
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SCHOOL community
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are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in
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NEARLY 20 DEALERS from the Pacific Northwest, California and Utah will
display close to one million old postcards, paper products and ephemera
Saturday and Sunday at Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N. The Greater Seattle
Postcard, Stamp and Paper Collectibles Show runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Entry fee is $5, which is good for both
days. The items include postcards, stamps, advertising trade cards, cigar labels,
valentines, scrap, travel brochures, photographs and movie memorabilia.

BRIEFS

Sgt. Ryan Stone of the Army National Guard recently brought their High
School Humvee program to Kentwood High School to demonstrate the
technical skills needed to service these important military vehicles. Students were allowed to explore the Humvee’s interior and then performed a
Preventative Maintenance Check and service on the vehicle. There was also
a short video showcasing career opportunities within the National Guard
for students of all backgrounds and interests.

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Johnny Gill admits
traveling the concert circuit
at age 46 with the older version of New Edition can get
a bit tiring as they bounce
from city to city.
Gill said he might even
â&#x20AC;&#x153;take me a restâ&#x20AC;? as he sits
on the bus heading to the
next stop as part of the 30th
anniversary tour.
But come concert time,
Gill, Bobby Brown, Ronnie
DeVoe, Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins and Ricky Bell
are all about pumping up
the crowd with their R&B
hits from the past and now.
New Edition performs at
9 p.m. Friday at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like pandemonium,â&#x20AC;?
said Gill, during a phone
interview last week as the
group traveled to Fresno
from San Diego, about crowd
reaction at the concerts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The energy is high from the
beginning to the end.â&#x20AC;?
New Edition started the
tour in December in Los

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been wonderful,
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a great time,â&#x20AC;?
Gill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something
the fans wanted to see and
something we wanted to
do.â&#x20AC;?
All six original members are on the tour. The
two-hour concert will
include group hits â&#x20AC;&#x153;Candy
Girl,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cool it Now,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr.
Telephone Manâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it
isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Love.â&#x20AC;?
Solo hits will include â&#x20AC;&#x153;My
Prerogativeâ&#x20AC;? by Brown; â&#x20AC;&#x153;My
My Myâ&#x20AC;? by Gill; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sensitivityâ&#x20AC;? by Tresvant.
Gill joined New Edition
in 1987 to replace Brown,
who left for a solo career.
Gill began his solo career in
1983 and last year released
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Still Winning,â&#x20AC;? his first
solo album in 15 years.
Fans seem to be eating
up the chance to hear the
six sing as a group as well as
their individual songs.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a night of great entertainment,â&#x20AC;? said Gill, who
lives in Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You
get all the hits from two
entities in one. You get bang

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The concerts attract a lot
of women.
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Gill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And some guys
who bring ladies. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
the smart ones.â&#x20AC;?
The group had talked for
several years about reuniting for a 30th anniversary
tour. They had branched into
other groups and worked as
solo artists as well.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very challenging,â&#x20AC;?
said Gill about getting all
six together to tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone was busy with family
and other entities. But we
talk every Sunday. It just
kind of happened naturally.
Our schedules cleared and
it came together.â&#x20AC;?
According to reviews in
other cities, Brown often
takes the stage part way
into the concert after the
other five have sung a few
songs. Gill typically hands
out roses to female fans as
he sings his 1990 charttopper â&#x20AC;&#x153;My My My.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been doing this
almost 30 years,â&#x20AC;? said Gill,
who has eight solo and duet
Top Ten R&B hits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We
entertain.â&#x20AC;?
For tickets, visit
www.showarecenter.com.

SHOWARE SHOOTOUT
SEEKS PLAYERS
Participants are wanted to
play in the second annual
ShoWare Shootout 3-on-3
basketball tournament
July 28-29 at the ShoWare
Center in Kent. The
tournament is open to all
ages of men, women and
children. Courts are set up
in the parking lot at the
ShoWare Center. The entry
fee is $75 per team. The fee
includes a guarantee of four
games, a T-shirt and an extra
T-shirt if your team wins the
championship game of
the division. Entry deadline
is July 20. A portion of the
proceeds will go to Kent
Youth and Family Services.
For more information,
call 206-240-9029 or go to
www.showareshootout.com.

Kentwood graduate Alyx
Toeaina has signed on with
the University of Washington to throw for the Huskies track and field team.
Toeaina, who lives next
to Kentwood and graduated June 9, stated that she
signed with the university
for a partial scholarship
the first week into the track
season.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to get it out of
the way so I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have
to worry about it during the
season,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted
to stay closer to home.â&#x20AC;?
Toeaina finished her final
track season as a Conqueror with two silver medals at
the state championship in
discus and shot put, throwing distances of 130 feet,
nine inches and 43 feet, 3.5
inches respectively. As a
junior she took first place
at state in the discus with a
throw of 136-3.
Toeaina started out
freshman year in 2009 with
a 12th place at state in the
shot put and ninth at districts. With a natural talent
to throw, Toeaina said she
improved due to the intense

Kentwood graduate Alyx Toeaina throws the discus during a practice at school. Toeaina signed on with the
University of Washington at the beginning of the track season. COURTESY PHOTO
her throwing talent during
her time as a Husky. At
the moment, she said she
is considering studying
either psychology or business, but has no definite
career ideas yet.

Sarah Toeaina qualified
for state in several running and hurdling events
in addition to her roles
on Kentwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball and girls basketball
squads.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just continuing my
track career and see where
that leads,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Toeaina also has a
younger sister, Sarah,
who will be a junior in
the fall.

Seattle T-Birds offer hockey school in Kent
Youth and adults can sign up for the
2012 Seattle Thunderbirds Hockey School
that runs Aug. 6-11 and Aug. 13-18 at the
ShoWare Center in Kent.
T-Birds assistant coach Darren Rumble
will be the lead instructor at the hockey
school. Center Tyler Alos will be one of the
instructors.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am looking forward to being a part
of another fun year at the Hockey School,â&#x20AC;?
said Alos in a T-Birds media release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With
Coach Rumble running the school this year
it is going to be fun and educational for all
the kids involved.â&#x20AC;?
Other T-Birds players taking part as
instructors will be announced in coming
weeks.
Participants in the T-Birds fourth annual Hockey School can choose one of two
weeks to participate in the school.
There are four youth groups: Group A for
kids ages 6, 7 and 8; Group B for ages 9-10;
Group C for ages 11-12; and Group D for
ages 13-14. There will be an adult group for
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competition she had at the
various invitationals she
was able to go to.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It built up my competitiveness,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was
up against people who were
better than me.â&#x20AC;?
Her sophomore year
Toeaina made large gains,
taking fifth at state in the
shot put and qualifying for
state in the discus, where
she ultimately placed
fourth.
Her junior year, she
secured third at state in the
shot put and the gold medal
in discus.
Much like the Conks girls
team, which place third this
year after taking the state
title in 2011, Toeaina said
she struggled to repeat the
same level of success.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as good as last
year,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In discus
I was all over the place. I
wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as consistent (as shot
put).â&#x20AC;?
In addition to track, she
was also able to use her explosive power on the court
with the Conks volleyball
team, which took second at
state in November.
With a summer training
program already in place,
Toeaina hopes to build on

players 18 and older.
For the third consecutive year the T-Birds
will offer a junior prep group geared toward
players ages 15-19 preparing for their
upcoming junior season. T-Bird players will
participate in both the on-ice and off-ice
sessions of the juniors.
Players interested in the Junior Prep
Group will be required to call T-Birds
hockey operations assistant Jeff Caso at
253-239-7825 to register.
The youth and junior prep groups will
receive an hour and a half of on-ice instruction followed by a one-hour off-ice session.
On the Saturday of the camp, there will be a
scrimmage game for each group.
The adult group will feature a two-hour
on-ice session preceded by an off-ice video
instruction session.
The youth camps cost $250, the junior
prep camp $350 and the adult camp $300.
Seattle Thunderbird Tyler Alos gets ready to pass a puck
Register for the hockey school at store.
to a teammate during WHL action last season. FILE PHOTO
seattlethunderbirds.com.

CLARIFICATION
In the story â&#x20AC;&#x153;Born to Jumpâ&#x20AC;?
from the June 15 issue, it
was stated that Kentwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Madelayne Varela placed
the highest of Kent and
Tahoma athletes at the state
championship. Other athletes
who also placed second
included Kentridge senior
Kaid Tipton, who took second
in the 110 hurdles, as well as
Kentwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alyx Toeaina.

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...obituaries
Francess E. Carter
Loving sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother
Francess E. Carter passed away on June 6, 2012 in Seattle at the age of
86. She leaves behind her sister Liz Martin and brother Tom Martin, sons
Marty and Douglas Carter and grandchildren Jeff DeBiase, Rick Carter,
Matt DeBiase, Kirstie Carter, Hayden Carter, Nicholas Carter, Jack Carter,
and great-grandchildren Cloe, Samantha, Alyssa, and Sofia DeBiase. She
was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Carter, brother John
Martin, sister Rose Martin, son Richard Carter, daughter Patti DeBiase,
and two of her grandsons Tom Carter and Chris DeBiase.
A memorial service will be held at Bonney-Watson Funeral Home
(16445 International Boulevard) in Sea-Tac, Washington on Saturday
June 23, 2012 from 1:00-3:00pm. http://bonneywatson.com/
obituaries/
640281

James R. Livingston
James R. Livingston, 88, of Kent, WA,
died June 14, 2012 at Forrest General Hospital
in Hattiesburg, MS. Mr. Livingston was
a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, was a
member of the American Legion and of the
Lutheran faith. He retired from United Airlines
where he worked as an R & E. Mechanic.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
George and Loretta Livingston. Survivors
include his wife, Lois M. Livingston of
Kent, WA; four children, Nancy (Herman
Lee) Robinson of Bellevue, WA, Dennis James (Hyun) Livingston
of Edgewood, WA, Barry Allen Livingston of Edmonds, WA and
Kelly Brian (Marilyn) Livingston of Hattiesburg; one brother, Larry
Livingston of Monroe, WA; one sister, Pat Locke of Pryor, OK; eight
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The family wishes memorial donations be made to Sacred
Heart Catholic Church. Please sign the guest book at www.
moorefuneralservices.com

Seniors

CALENDAR
Events

near the start/finish line at 7:30 a.m. For more information,
visit KentArts.com or call 253-856-5050.

Kent Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., each Saturday
through Sept. 29, Town Square Plaza Park, Second Avenue
between West Smith Street and West Harrison Street in
downtown Kent. As many as 45 vendors selling everything
from fruits, flowers, vegetables and crafts are expected at
season opener. For more information, call 253-486-9316 or
visit www.kentfarmersmarket.com.
Greater Seattle Area Vintage Postcard and Paper
Collectible Show: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., June 23; 10 a.m.4 p.m., June 24, Kent Commons 525 4th Ave. N., Kent.
Approximately 15 dealers from throughout the Pacific
Northwest, California and Utah will display nearly 1 million
old postcards, paper collectibles and ephemera. Included
will be postcards, stamps, advertising trade cards, cigar
labels, valentines, scrap, travel brochures, photographs,
stereographs, aviation, auto, railroad, ship, movie memorabilia and more. Free appraisals of all old paper collectibles
will be given with the price of admission. Admission: $5 for
both days. For further information, call Jeremy LeRoque at
626-665-9435.
Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth of July Splash: Noon-11 p.m., July 4,
Lake Meridian Park, 14800 SE 272nd St., Kent. A fun-filled
day on the shore of Lake Meridian on the east side of Kent.
Featuring family activities, including old fashioned games,
hands on art projects, demonstrations, a wide variety of
food vendors and continuous stage entertainment. The
Splash is highlighted by a performance by the Air Force
Marching Band and a large fireworks displays.
9th annual Kent Cornucopia Days Fun Run and
Walk: 9 a.m., July 14. Race starts at the parking lot of the
Riverbend Golf Course, parking is available at Russell Road
Park, 24400 Russell Road and Kent Elementary School,
24700 64th Ave. South. There is no race parking at Riverbend Golf Course. Hosted by Kent Parks Recreation and
Community Services, Entry fee: $10 or $25 (with a technical
T-shirt) before July 12. Participants age 60 and over run for
free. Avoid the lines on race day; pick up shirts and bibs July
11between 3-7 p.m. at Road Runner Sports at Kent Station.
Race day registration and packet pick up is also available

Benefits
Kent Downtown Partnership 19th annual Dinner
and Auction: 5-9 p.m., June 23, ShoWare Center, 625
W. James St. The theme this year is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extra! Extra! Read all
about it! Downtown Kent is making headlines!â&#x20AC;? The evening
includes a dessert dash, raffle, silent and live auction for
prizes. Organization that purchase a table for 10 have the
opportunity to choose a headline from any decade, decorate
the table accordingly, and don elegant evening wear from
that era. All proceeds from ticket sales and the auctions
support KDPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing efforts toward the revitalization of
Kentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown. To purchase tickets, make a donation or
be an event sponsor, please contact KDP at 253-813-6976,
or email Barbara Smith or Charlotte Turpin at: charlottet@
kentdowntown.org or barbaras@ kentdowntown.org.
Second annual Kent Rod & Custom Car Show:
9 a.m.-3 p.m., Aug. 25, Railroad Avenue North, between
Smith and Meeker streets. Proceeds benefit the Kent Downtown Partnership. Raffle and door prizes, music. Fee: $15 pre
entry, $20 at the door. For more information, contact KDP ay
253-813-6976 or Larry Hanson at 253-377-2525.

New Edition: 9 p.m., June 22, ShoWare Center, 625 W.
James St., Kent. New Edition celebrating its 30th anniversary
of their first album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Candy Girl.â&#x20AC;? All six original members of
the group will join the tour. They are Bobby Brown, Ronnie
DeVoe, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins and Ricky
Bell. Ticket prices: $150, $125, $85, $75, $55 and $45. The
$150 ticket includes a meet and greet while the $85 ticket
includes access to the club lounge where mixed drinks may
be purchased. For tickets, go to www.showarecenter.com.
5th Annual Evening of Jazz & Art: 5-8 p.m.,
June 28, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
Doors open at 5 p.m. when boxed dinner/desserts will
be distributed on a first come, first served basis (while
supplies last), compliments of Stafford Suites. The Kent
Valley Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exhibition and demonstration also begins
at 5 and is open for the duration of the event. Guests are
invited to share a toast in the no-host â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mocktail Gardenâ&#x20AC;? on the patio. Donations are welcome. Jazz pianist
Richard Dean plays indoors (5 -5:15 and 6:15-7) while
outdoor concerts feature local musicians (5:15 - 6:15
p.m.) and renowned jazz saxophonist Darren Motamedy
and his band (7-8) Limited indoor seating is available;
guests are asked to bring blankets, lawn chairs and
umbrellas for outdoor seating. For more information, call
253-856-5164.
Skate America: Oct. 19-21, ShoWare Center,
625 W. James St., Kent. Skate America tickets initially will
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tickets, seating in rows 1-2 plus drink, food perks; $125 for
Gold tickets, seating in rows 3-17 on sides of arena; and $75
for Silver tickets, seating in rows 3-17 in end zone areas.
Single-session tickets go on sale in September. For tickets,
go to www.showarecenter.com.

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Marie Louise Andersen
Marie Louise Andersen, a long
time resident of Kent, WA, passed away
peacefully surrounded by family June 13,
2012. Marie was born to William and
Theresa Blosl on September 11, 1925 in
Seattle, WA.
She was preceded in death by her husband
of 47 years, Howard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chumâ&#x20AC;? Andersen.
Marie is survived by sons Mike Andersen
of Westport, WA, Raymond Andersen of
Spokane, WA, Ron Andersen of Kent, WA;
daughters Charlotte Soros of Portland, OR and Sharon Rikansrud
of Schurz, NV; sister Dorothy Olson of Kent, WA; and numerous
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After 29 years working for
The Boeing Company, she retired in 1985. Marie could often be
found working in her yard and keeping her house neat.
Her interests included travelling, reading, playing bingo,
embroidery, and various craft projects. Marie was a member of the
Catholic Church and the Red Hat Society.
Memorial services will be held 12:00 P.M. Saturday, June 23,
2012 at the Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, WA.

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drangea? I have figured out that when
I prune my big leaf hydrangea back
to keep it from blocking the front
windows it punishes me and does
not flower again for a couple of years.
Right now I can tell there are flower
buds at the end of some branches but
this monster is over 5 feet
tall and again blocking the
window. R., email
A. I vote you move this
hydrangea to a new spot
where it can spread out its
branches and grow into
the full-bodied shrub it
was meant to be. Replace
this giant old-fashioned
hydrangea with a dwarf or everblooming hydrangea that can be more
easily kept under control. Hydrangeas
are happiest when they are left to
grow natural and never pruned. The
new varieties like Endless Summer
and Blushing Bride are an exception
as you can cut back the branches on
these hydrangeas in spring or summer
and still get blooms; they will flower
on new growth instead of two-yearold wood like traditional big leaf
hydrangeas.
Q. I was given a beautiful pink
hydrangea for Mother’s Day. It has unusual blooms that are more flat than
the round ball hydrangea flowers. Do
you know what type of hydrangea
Marianne Binetti

When June arrived you may have
noticed your vegetable seedlings and
annual plants experiencing a growth
spurt.
Just like a teenager, they now have a
huge appetite so this is your reminder
to fertilize.
Roses and perennials
also benefit from a feeding
this month and if you still
have not fertilized the lawn,
make sure you do so early
in the month before the hot
weather arrives.
You should not feed
clematis vines in bud or
bloom. Clematis is the
queen of all vines here in the Northwest and thrives in our cool summer
weather but if you give clematis a big
dose of plant food just as it starts to
bloom it sometimes drops the flower
buds before they open in a misguided
effort to grow more foliage.
Instead, pamper your clematis with
an organic mulch placed on top of the
roots but not quite touching the thin
and delicate stems of this vine.
June also is the month to add more
hydrangeas to your garden. These
summer-blooming shrubs now come
in a wider range of colors, sizes and
flower types. Here are the most-asked
questions about growing hydrangeas.
Q. How do I prune my giant hy-

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traffic efficiency by rebuilding intersections and retiming traffic signals and install
street lights, storm drains
and other utilities, according to Mark Madfai, project
engineer.
Officials are working to
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with over a long period of
time.
Team RVLution’s goal
was to finish RAW in 55
hours. They did it in 57
hours and 35 minutes,
beating Team Wisconsin
– a team that had placed
in the top three in the past
five years – by 23 minutes.
RAW officials said Team
RVLution was the only
rookie team to cross the
finish line. Other rookie
teams made the attempt
but did not finish.

this is, can I plant it outside and will
it survive the winter here and bloom
again next year?
A. It sounds like you’ve received
one of the new gift hydrangeas called
Strawberries and Cream and the good
news is it can go out into the garden
in our climate for years of enjoyment.
The flowers you describe are called
“lace cap” as the center blooms do not
open, giving the illusion of a lacy frill
around a center cap of buds. Enjoy the
blooms indoors but by June remove
the plant from it’s pot and replant into
a spot where it is protected from the
hot afternoon sun. Hydrangeas love
moist soil and newly-planted hydrangeas will need extra water the first
summer and into the fall until they
establish a strong root system. There’s
no need to fertilize your newly-transplanted hydrangea as you want this
greenhouse-grown plant to harden
off or acclimate to the outdoor life. A
mulch over the roots during the first
winter will help it to survive and grow
into a tough shrub that flowers each
summer.
Marianne Binetti is the author of “Easy
Answers for Great Gardens” and several
other books. For book requests or answers
to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O.
Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a selfaddressed, stamped envelope for a personal
reply. For more gardening information, she
can be reached at www.binettigarden.com.

“While this was a competition, the camaraderie
that was built with other
teams was impressive,”
Stoffel said. “We all wanted
each other to succeed and
this motivated us to do our
best.”
Next up for Stoffel is
finishing the 2012 STP
next month in one day.
And he has his eyes set on
RAMROD (Ride Around
Mount Rainier in One
Day) next year.
Stoffel said he would
do the RAW again. “This
was a great team of very

dedicated athletes, and it
was an honor to be part of
that unit.”
You can meet Stoffel
at Road Runner Sports,
417 Ramsay Way, Suite
110, at Kent Station at
7 p.m. July 26. He and his
wife will be holding a free
nutrition seminar for the
public and sharing tips on
living a healthier lifestyle.
Ruth Stoffel, wife of Steve
Stoffel, lives in Kent. She is an
Emmy award-winning journalist, a best-selling author
and a certified nutrition coach
and marketer.

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ASSESSMENT
INSTALLMENT NOTICE
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT #351
CITY OF KENT
Construction of a new five-lane
arterial extending from Auburn
Way North (East Valley Highway) eastward up the hill to Kent
Kangley Road at 116th Avenue,
as provided by Ordinance 3496.
Notice is hereby given that the
twelfth (12th) installment of the
assessment levied for the above
named improvement, comprising
Local Improvement District No.
351 under Ordinance 3513, is
now due and payable and unless
payment is made on or before
July 5, 2012, said installment
will be delinquent, will have
a penalty of nine (9) percent
added, and the collection of
such delinquent installment will
be enforced in the manner
prescribed by law.
Dated this 5th day of June, 2012.
R. J. Nachlinger
Finance Director
City of Kent, Washington
Published in the Kent Reporter
June 22, 2012 and June 29, 2012.
#627794.
CITY OF KENT
NOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL
The following is a summary of
ordinances adopted by the Kent
City Council on
June 19, 2012:
ORDINANCE NO. 4038
AN ORDINANCE of the
City Council of the City of Kent,
Washington, amending the 2011
budget for adjustments made between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.
Effective Date: June 27, 2012
Each ordinance will take effect
30 days from the date of passage,
unless subjected to referendum
or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless

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otherwise noted. A copy of the
complete text of any ordinance
will be mailed upon request to
the City Clerk.
Brenda Jacober, CMC,
City Clerk
Published in the Kent Reporter
on June 22, 2012. #641203.
Mike Hughes, KV Industrial,
LLS c/o IDS Real Estate
Group, 515 S. Figueroa ST, 16th
Flr, Los Angeles, CA 90071, is
seeking coverage under the
Washington State Department of
Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste
Discharge General Permit. The
proposed project, Stryker Business Center at Pacific Gateway,
is located at 20403 68th Ave
in Kent, in King County. This
project involves 16 acres of soil
disturbance for stockpiling construction activities. Stormwater
will be discharged to directly into
Mill Creek.
Any persons desiring to present
their views to the Washington
State Department of Ecology
regarding this application, or
interested in Ecology’s action on
this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30
days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from
this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water
quality, and, if so, whether the
project is necessary and in the
overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements
under
WAC
173-201A-320.
Comments can be submitted to:
Department of Ecology
Attn: Water Quality Program,
Construction Stormwater
P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA
98504-7696
Published in the Kent Reporter
on June 22, 2012 and June 29,
2012 #641186.

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